"It actually mostly sounds weirdly old-fashioned? But you also might kind of want cultural translation, if you're going to Sergal. I'll ask."

"Thanks!"

He does that, animatedly. The computer translation mostly catches it - his coworkers are worried that they need more Quenya translation help with all the Elves and Elf-gods around.

"You might be able to get daeva to do it if you can finesse a long term summon. We get our summoners' languages."

"That's the thing the Elf-gods are in town to set up, the places where summoning works. The guides on stuff to pay with wasn't super helpful - we don't have personal computers or most kinds of popular electronics yet, we kind of aren't big on music for cultural reasons..."

"Fairies are easy to pay - they're telekinetic but they have to acquire their physical belongings the same way anyone else does - and would work fine for translation work. It's us demons who are complicated. It doesn't have to be music, writing works, recommendations work even if Hell has already curated the thing as long as your recommendations are or seem informed."

"I expect it'll get figured out but the bureau staff aren't totally the most creative-minded people? They don't want to be first. Maybe if they get desperate enough to solve their language problem. Anyway, I'm off Vegzdal - two days from now - and I can translate for you then."

"You wanna wander around two days and then come pick him up to translate for us?" Cam asks Timothy.

"Sure, and that way if we get kicked out for rudeness to the Melkor-worshippers we'll have seen a bit of the city first."

"Exactly."

Off sightseeing!

Such sights! So many orcs!

The temples are very large and imposing and slightly scary to set foot in even knowing they've been empty a long time. "I wonder if Utumno is a tourist destination."

Cam looks at the map. "It might be, sites of atrocities on Earth in Revelation sometimes are."

"Atrocities I've heard of?"

"I'm not sure, I haven't done much atrocity tourism, but I know people go look at World War II concentration camps."

"Heard of that one."

"I told Sauron he was worse than Hitler, it wasn't as satisfying as it should have been."

"Were you hoping to hurt his feelings?"

"I definitely wasn't expecting it."

"Maybe killing him will be satisfying enough to make up for it."

"Maybe, yeah."

And two days later they go meet the orc at the tourism bureau.

"Hi!"

"Hi! Having fun?"